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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Heatherstone Players Matter (EP1405) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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dot com. Today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar originally aired on July fourteenth,
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nineteen fifty seven and the title is The Heatherstone Players Matter from Hollywood It's
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fine now? Or Johnny doll Ah, how weary is Dale? Flat and
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unprofitable? Seemed to me all the uses of this world? Who is that?
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Garrett Reynolds, Johnny Reynolds and Trenton Right, New Jersey State Mutual Life.
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Well, what was the quote from Shakespeare about it? Hamma? Wasn't
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the last I would have tail unfold? Whose lightest word would harrow? Off
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ice? Freeze thy young blood? Make thy two eyes like stars down from
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their spears. Hey, hey, now, wait a minute. My hair
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to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Garrett, have you
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gone off your rocker? Why don't you come on down here? See?
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Yeah, I think i'd better Mark Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man
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with the Action Back to expense the Cow America's Fabulous Free Lance Insurance Investigator Turly
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Johnny Dallon expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar the New Jersey
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State Neutral Life Insurance Company, Trent New Jersey office. Following is an account
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of expenses encourage during my investigation of the Heatherstone Players matter expense account out of
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one nine dollars eighty cents trained fair lunch and incidentals. On the trip from
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Hartford to Trenton, New Jersey, I had him to seventy cents taxi to
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Garrett Reynold's office. Oh glad you wasted no time, Johnny fidd On.
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I'll get right to the point, rush if I read the signs right?
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Yes, okay? What are you expecting to get bumped off? The other
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hear of the Heatherstone Players sounds like a summer theater or a traveling stock company.
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It's Cyril Peter Saint George Heatherstone's and he's just as bad as he sounds,
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an old Shakespearean actor, a real ham Ah Friends Roman, No,
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don't, don't, don't do that. He'll be bad enough when he gets
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here any minutes now, what do you mean every other sentence a quote from
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the Immortal bar time he's listened to him for five minutes. You never want
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to hear of Shakespeare again. It sounds like he might be fun fun.
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He's poisoned, and if he gets knocked off it'll cost the company ten thousand
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dollars. Come on, tell me off. He keeps traveling around, conducting
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classes in Shakespeare and putting on occasional performances with the local talent. After he
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gets all there, does some of them. That is, whenever he pulls
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out of a town, he leaves behind a lot of untaped bill No wonder
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he keeps traveling around. It's no joke. He also leaves behind a lot
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of enemies and a lot of broken high If he's Romeo himself or Casanova,
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anyhow, he's back. You're intresting. He's putting on a Shakespearean festival over
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radio station w VGR. Oh well, hey, now maybe I could join
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the cast. What's hot? What life? F leonda? Window breaks?
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It is the East ten? Will you've cut it out? It's a serious
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it's a am I, but go on. There is not one if his
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cast or crew there at the radio station doesn't hate every bone in his body
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except maybe young Johnny Carter. And who she Oh, she's a girl he
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picked to play Juliet. I don't know if he is promised to a shining
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career on the stage and start him in pictures and that sort of thing.
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Well maybe she's good thought all kid herself. It's part of his act.
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The charmer away from Charlie Cubberly and who is he? He's also in the
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cast and getting nothing but bit far well. I still see no cause for
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a long Oh you will, Johnny, if you ever attend one of those
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rehearsal. Look if they all hate him, so why don't they just walk
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on? The old shift has got him, tie down the contract, but
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to sign him with their eyes closed. They're stuck with him, Johnny,
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until the festival is over or until somebody kills him. Do you think it's
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not serious, Johnny? One way or another. He has taken everybody he's
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ever come into contact with, even you, even me. Number of times
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I've had to go through the operation of changing the beneficiary, and his power
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is the beneficiary. As at the moment Johan Carter, the actress you mentioned,
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a girl I mentioned, he uses the policy is a come on to
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charm the poor unsuspecting Yo? What has what has he done? That?
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It in golden letters should be set among the high tighes of the calendar,
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Johnny Boy, Act three, Scene one, Mayor for your plebian here,
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I should have asked this church feller next to you, why boy? He
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said, for me? This is our Pedstone. This is Johnny Dollar.
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Oh and here's my hand and mine, sir, with my heart in Gordon
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man, that's from the temples back to castone. I've asked Dollars to act
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as your body god until this play of yours is over right, you can
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get out of town. Why festival in which the immortal Shakespeare is what beneath
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my practice hands? So seven d a stone Jarrett, I'm on her,
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I said, bodyguard. I've received pree anonymous notes telling me, you know,
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on certain terms, that his life isn't worth a plug nickel around that
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studio threats warning, what matter to quote about I bear a charmed life?
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Have you given those notes to the police. Yeah, but I haven't heard
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back from him. That's why I sent for you in such a hurt.
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How fitting that my ends should come there on stage, so to speak?
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What blow come rack? At least tire die with Harvest on my back.
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It is the same a friend that I'll die with my boot. Yeah,
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I got that. Has anybody threatened you and person had a stone? Yeah?
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And what about that girl Joan? And the way Charlie comes you?
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He makes the vault a feasting present full of Oh listen, will you.
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I'm talking about Charlie the boy she's thrown off, But for you and your
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fall, they promises that boy is crazy enough for jealousy to try almost anything.
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I you is mad, right, that he is mad. He's true,
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He's true, he's pity and it's true, Headstone, he's mad enough
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to kill you, and so are some of the others. You're pretty rough
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on your chance of actors on your crew. But I must be cruell early
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to be kind. Now, so ambitious, all of them, but so
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inadequate. So tutally do they attempt to gain the highest talent to be had,
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with which I am so rich. And all right, all right,
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look please, Apparently Garrett feels that your life isn't danger. I'm sure of
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it, And as long as I've come all the way down here, I'll
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take his word for it that every one of your assoaches there's a serious personal
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reason for wanting to see you out of the way. Well, private griefs
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they have allowed. I know. Now, listen, will you. It's
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like us. Don't you care that somebody is out to get you? My
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cough my crew said, yes, ah me stands not within the prospect of
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believable love the factory man. Yes, I swear true that I was better
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couplance, more in follow than an anger in gratitude towards me who've given man
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the much. Believe me, it is true. That's why I insist you
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have somebody to look out for you until you can get out of town.
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These worlds are raised us to me. While that's why I sent for Dollar.
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This man. Yes, let me have men about me who are headed
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man and such a sleep and night. Yon Dollars has a leaven hungry look.
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He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous? Will you shut up?
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And because I am, believe me, if it weren't for the ten
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thousand it costs the company. I sometimes think I'd like to take care of
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that little matter myself, and you would be found out, that's what you
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think than dollar? Look upon his face I quote so full of us was
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Jealousy is guilt? It spills itself in peering into all right. The fact
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remains. And in spite of what Garrett says, you're determined to go ahead
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with his play, this festival of you, in spite of the frets on
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your life, Why not all good die possy through nature to each other.
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Okay, okay, when's your next rehearsal this afternoon? But stay w b
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gr right correct. But I'm going to be there to interfere with me at
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work on, to hide in the corner and see if all this fuss over.
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You are justified to see if the atmosphere down there is as stick as
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Garrett says it is. To either take on this case or not, depending
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on whether I think your life is really in danger. Oh, Johnny,
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his life has been in danger for years, you admitted by that. I
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do so there for Hob Hobb they could have done, would long ago have
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cust me in its grass? Yeah, well, maybe you've just been lucky
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in the past. I quote Trees has done his work, no steal,
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no part not domestic, nothing, nothing can touch me, Laurien with that
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thought, I'm busy now, Yeah, well go get perhaps well that before
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I quote to fear the world off all the why Jacob, Yeah, you
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want to drink Garrett. That is the craziest man I've ever met. But
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I still don't really see what you're worried about. That's because all you've seen
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is is the amusing side of them. But I tell you, Johnny,
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Look, did you mean that about going over to the studio. Yeah,
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sure, and frankly, more to see how our radio show is put together
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than anything else. And I'll arrange you to sit in the control room with
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the engineer, the fellow who keeps the voices and sound effects and music and
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things in that great I'll have a ball. Yeah, but you'll see why
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I sent for you. Why I'm so sure somebody's gonna murder ahead this tone.
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If I didn't know you so well, Garrett, I think you were
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planning to do it yourself and call me in as a cover up. You
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know something, Johnny, Wow, I'll call the studio make arrangements for you.
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I couldn't help feeling that Garrett's own resentment of Cyril Heatherstone was for a
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lot more than the mere fact he'd have to revise his policy a few more
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times. But if so, he wouldn't admit it to me. I had
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him three dollar twenty five taxiser the studios at WVGR. There I was escorted
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backstage so to speak to the control room. It was a small room facing
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into the main studio to a large sound proof plate glass window, and it
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was loaded with complicated equipment before the control panel with its knobs and keys and
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dials set Gordon Mitchell, the engineer, nice looking chapp in his thirties.
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Through the window, we could see Heatherstone and the cats gathered around the table
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working on the script. Sit here right beside me, Dollar and you can
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see and hear everything that goes on in there. Oh wow, sure an
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ice guard is Is that microphone sitting in the middle of the studio there,
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the one they use when they're on the air, You know, that's one
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of them. There's one over there beside all that equipment for the sound effects
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men. Oh yes, I see. And then there's another one in that
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booth over against the wall. And what's that far two isolated for special voice
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effects like a voice coming over telephone, things like that. That filled her
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mic, Oh I see. And then the one hanging over the table where
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they're reading will be for the orchestra when it comes in later. Say,
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you have a lot of stuff to balance when you're doing a show, haven't
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you? More knobs and dials and stuff? You see here? This knob
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controls the mic over their table out there. Listen fait a minute. The
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lion s fresh out for the crack well. I well, Charlie Coverley plays
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one of the small well. You said to get everything we could out of
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the line. I did so. I added a couple of works. They
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see, Yeah, well, I thought, there we go. Dog.
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Listen, we don't gi find a goal A painful lily to throw a pup
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lama. He's waiting. Ridiculous, they say, remember that ridiculous You were
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enough cut it off all he really tears into them. Nothing, Believe me,
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there was nothing. Don He's a most hated man in this town,
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so I've heard so. I heard pretty fast dealer too. If you're not
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kidding, he should nicked me. How do you mean all my savings,
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you know, invest in this Shakespearean festival. He'll get a sponsor. We'll
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all make a million. If it wasn't for the Beneficial Finance Company, I'd
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be on my ufforts, bad way and poort. Charlie out there not only
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lost his shirt to Cyril, but his girl too, have a little blonde
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designed him. Wh who's talking now? Yeah, listen to open the mic
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again. There's Rosemary. That's for remembering. Praise is all remember what,
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and there is parenting. That's the thought there's that for you, and here's
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something for me when they call it her brace? So Sunday, what makes
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the role of a few live? If you don't point I'm child? You
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don't commented the child before me. I'm out remember his common pool and learned
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us in young Anders. Sorry, I can't take it, Jordan. That
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guy is the most egotistical character I've ever seen. He isn't going to live
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along. Who are you thinking of any of that group out there and the
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sound crew and the musicians. There isn't one of them hasn't got murder in
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his eye. I totally ensured all are you going to say? I?
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I sent a couple of notes to Cereals Insurance Manny is an old friend of
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mine. I didn't sign him because I didn't want to get involved, but
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I told him what I'm telling you. Somebody's gonna kill that guy out there
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unless you were Wait a second and go through me there when that's oh sorry,
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Cyril, mister Headstone responsible, Wow, this a rehustle that top backs
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so loud Ersu's too, that's too you're shouting at me. Not I were
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not hacked. Okay, sorry, believe me, you'll wear me out this
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top. Believe me, I am sorry, I forgot I rehearsed my life
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and the pole ghost. I love how shape they're ready the fils an ultimately
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yes, sir, right in the isolation booth. Well that happened, all
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of you. There's a great line from the list and ah, I'm a
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great ass doll. No get the hair. Same braby likes himself, doesn't
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it. What are those kids lit in their eyes? Sad? A minute
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minute ago there's murdering? Who's that team in the door at the back door
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of the isolation booth. All that's one of those sound effects. Man.
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He takes care of Hi, boys and girls. How's the old woo?
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Now? Is this microphone on and walking properly? Yeah, it's on,
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but work a little closer to it, will Yeah, with a bit less
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voice, you tell me I'm using microphone. I'm quiet, all of you?
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Wow? What's you waiting for? The move? Dollar? The move?
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Come on? Come on? Ah m my bobbles spinning doom, pull
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the fucking plumb to walk a night. I was good, he could buy
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your pasty files. Killed the foul crime done? Oh, why don't tell
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me he's forgotten this? Why he's high, mo Shanda, that's not the
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script. I drunk, drunk quick? What is this my dismal scene?
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I needs must act alone? Past hope cost kill me? Wait a minute,
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the fun what's happened? I don't know? Doll right back too,
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of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in Almond, Who among us has not hoped
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which is the right of all men everywhere, And no act too, of
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your truly. Donny Dollar and the Heatherstone players matter. Cyril Peter, Saint
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George Heatherstone was dead, there was no doubt about it, and the old
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Shakespearean actor had died muttering the words of the immortal bar They're at radio station
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WVGR and Trent, New Jersey. When he fell on the isolation book at
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one side. I immediately rushed into the main studio checked the dead man's body
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is closed. I started eppy nook and cranny of the isolation booth and came
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up with nothing. Cyril is dead, dear, dear, is it?
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Well? I'm glad he's dead. He said it coming for a long long
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time. Don't stop it, don't stop it. He was going to make
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me an actress, a great actress. Start did that stuff? Jonnie was
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taking you like? He took the rest of it, and me, I'm
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glad to see him lying there. Oh are you? Huh? Don ringo?
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Sound effects man. I just came in and time it. Hey,
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wait a minute, who were you? Dollar Insurance investigator investigated, that's right,
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Gordon. Yet that phone in the control room. Can you call outside
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on a sure and call headquarters. Get somebody from homicide over here right here?
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Don Hey, yes, sir, I want you to stay right here
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by this isolation boots. Make sure that nobody say who, by the way,
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opened the door of this boot? What I did to God? Did
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you touch his body? No? Oh? No, I hope not,
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because what's the matter? Miss the Dollar is well? At least I know
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what killed him. Yeah, what don you stay here? Okay, the
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rest of your bank to the rehearsal table. I want to talk to you.
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It was so faint, I wasn't quite sure for a second, but
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there was no doubt about that order that came from the isolation booth. Like
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peach blossom, it's only more delicate and more deadly. It was the order
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of potassium Payson. And I'm glad the trace of it was strength, because
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one good whip that full strength would kill almost instantly, had killed me.
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I'd left Don Ringle there is a booth to watch him and see if he
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made any move toward heatherstone body. But Don had been the last one near
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him before he died. All right, now, officially, there's nothing I
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can do until the police get here. You you said you know what killed
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him, mister Dollar, Potassium Payson, Charlie ever hear of him? But
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well no, of course, not one tiny crystalis followed kills instantly, or
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a single flip of it one it's heated, vaporized. Same thing. You
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think maybe he committed suicide, mister Dollar? What do you think, Don?
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Or what are your mean? Doesn't sound like Heatherstone to meat Dollar kill
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himself, all right, So he needed help from someone in this room.
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And don you were the last one near him. Oh wait a mess?
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Okay, okay, Arlie, yes, sir. And you think of anybody
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here who might have had a better motive for killing Heatherstone than you? No,
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No, I can't. I wanted to see that tony, egotistical shiker
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get more than anything else in the world. But I wouldn't have killed him.
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Well, I would, Charlie gladly, and I make no bones about
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it. Police will be here anymount dollar good. How about your feelings of
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the matter. Don sure, I'm glad he's been knocked off, but don't
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accuse me of having I'm not accusing anybody yet, but this is kind of
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funny. The only one who admits he would have killed Heatherstone is Gordon the
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here. But he was in the control room with me, not only when
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it happened, but long before it happened. And potassium pith and doesn't wait
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the rest of you, though we're right here next to Heatherstone. Any one
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of you could have flipped the stuff to him before he walked into that isolation
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booth. Yeah, but how would we have made him take it? Uh,
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that's a good question. Did you find any of that potassium whatever it
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is in the booth? Now? But I got a good whipp of it.
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You said it had to be vaporized the path and asked to do its
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work. Yes, dollar could have capsule of it have been tossed into the
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booths, or maybe less than the fore than step on and where's the capsule?
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Gordon? I went over that booth was a fine tooth comb, Joan,
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Yes, are you the only one who touched him before I came in
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from the control room. I didn't touch my coach, but you were the
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only one who went into the booth. Weren't you the only one who could
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have removed any evidence of the means used to get that vaporized path? And
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if you're saying that Joney had anything to do with what's the matter with you?
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Didn't you know that she was? She was in love with a All
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right? Take it. I thought I loved him her, honey. I
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guess it took to bring me to my senses, John, Oh, Joe,
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all right, Look, we've got a murder on our hands. And
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unless the police are able to come up with more than I have, well,
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nothing weren't the doctor who came along with Lieutenant Harper agreed with Mike and
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pollution that had a stone of diet from a healthy whift to pay it in
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gas. But neither of them could find any possible source of the gas,
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even have to throw inspection of the isolation booth, a studio and every one
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of us dinners. Nothing did it. Finally, after some four hours of
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feudal questioning, there was murder, all right, Dollar, no question about
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it. Any suspects, any suspects, all of them, every one of
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them. That maybe the guy who was in the control room with you,
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lieutenant, that should make him number one in the lists. You've been reading
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too many mysteries to it. Oh look, lieutenant, how much longer are
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we going to have to stay around here? You anxious to get away?
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What's your name? Ringo? Well? I mean it? After all?
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You know, inspector? Would there be any harm and putting my equipment away?
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What equipment? Oh, Mike's and mike cables, pass conditions on the
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board and control room so on? Uh you see any reason? Dollar?
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No? Thanks? A little tired of just standing around? What about us
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with tennis? It's doing really good to keep us here. Look, somebody
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in this place killed Heatherstone. Yeah, but you're not getting anywhere finding out
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who it was. Are we all under suspicion? Excuse me, Dolly,
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you're standing on this mike cable? Oh sorry, I asked you a question,
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Lieutenant. Answer is yes, yes, you're all under suspicion. But
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what good is keeping us here rather be locked up? The Excuse me again,
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dogar Now this cable? Oh sure you know? Wait a minute,
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that's the cable for the mic in that booth. Yes, that's right.
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Excuse me, Yeah, you go ahead and take it away, Gordon,
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those mike. I'll stay in the studio, yes, sir. Oh if
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you ever want to inspect him, inspect him? Went for Oh I didn't
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know. Maybe I know, Gordon? What this cable to the booth mic?
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It's thicker than the other? Oh yeah, probably an old one,
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or maybe it's bigger because it has a couple of extra leads in it,
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extra wires. Yeah, the old ones did. That's why you two,
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Gordon got sure in my pocket there you are fliers too, if you want
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them. If I don't understand, why now this mic in the boot cheerful?
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That's pretty don't then you do it? Take the faceplate off this mic?
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Sure? Why? Yeah, doll potassium paton a crystal, a potassium
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patan vaporized in this boot, for sure. But you're gonna tell me how.
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Maybe I'm just kissing, but I think so. Go ahead, God,
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yes, sir, Well, I still don't. Yeah you are.
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There's the inside of it. Yeah, And there's a block, this tiny
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ball of fuse metal all that's left of a heating element that was melted away
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inside this mic thanks to the extra wires and that table. Well, it's
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probably just a little piece of stuff. And look at the color, a
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livid red typical of the action of the pay it an on fuse metal on
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the heating element that was placed in the mic and destroyed by a surge of
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current. Hey, that color, that's right, you're right. Well.
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And the one man who didn't hesitate to say how he felt about Heavystone,
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who said he would kill him, who warned us, and the one man
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with an alibi because I was there in the control room with him. I
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suppose you just connected the power leads to that table when you went into the
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control room to call the police. Didn't regard Yeah, mister do you guessed
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right again? But it was a good try, it wasn't it. No
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flight of angels will sing him to his arrest. So that was it and
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the company will have to pay the claim expensive count total including incidentals and fair
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back to High Pride fifty one twenty five Yours to leave, Johnny downs now
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here is our star to tell you about next week's story. Next week,
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the yours truly matter, and I give you one gift about the name of
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the victims. Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Downer,
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood. It is
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produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote tonight's story. Heard in
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our cast were Virginia Greg Laurence Hopkins, Nick Crenna, Sam Edwards, Frank
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Grissell, herb Bigrant and Haunts Conried. He's going to join us next week,
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same time and station for another exciting story of Yours truly, Johnny Dollars.
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Welcome back. Well, so much to say on this episode. First
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of all, it's great to hear Hans Conried in this program. He had
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been a few other episodes, one from back in nineteen fifty and it also
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appeared in The Bennett Matter and another program earlier in nineteen fifty seven. But
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here he plays a character that if you've listened to much earlier old time radio,
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say from the mid or early forties, I will certainly sound familiar.
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The top of character he played on programs such as Burns and Allen, so
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that was a trait to hear. Good performance there and a nice overall mix.
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I've said before that the Johnstone mysteries or episodes tended to really go more
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towards the character base, but this one works in a nice mystery to go
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along with the character. A pretty clever way of committee murderers, with perhaps
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the only week spot in this episode being the murder calling attention to himself as
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he was removing these wires and insisting on doing it while everyone was around.
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If he'd wait till, waited till after the police gone, it might have
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been the perfect crime, but perhaps was just a little jittery. Virginia greg
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continues to show she can act, even if her job is to act as
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if she's someone who can't act. Did a good job, seemed like she
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couldn't act and with Virginia Greg that takes some acting to do. I also
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love Johnny wanting to know how a radio program was made. And I thought
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the reaction of the insurance agent to Heatherstone, and as well as the insurance
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agent's reaction to Johnny's suggestion that this might be an attempt by the insurance agent
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to get Johnny here to be the cover up for the actual crime, really
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did serve to establish this guy as someone who was really hated. And one
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thing I really loved about Conried's role here I talked about the laughing matter,
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where John Dayner really played a comedian without any sort of flair that we could
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really buy him as a comedian. Really, Conried just put everything into this
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role and created someone who you could really buy into. So this is a
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great episode, one of the best best ones we've heard, and certainly the
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best that Jack Johnstone has written from, particularly the mystery standpoint. If I
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had one slight concern, it's that the episode is part of a larger narrative
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Waiting portraying Shakespearean actors, and I think it's probably a lot of people to
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conclude that Shakespeare is just kind of stuffy and snallbash etc. All right,
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well, now some listener comments and feedback regarding episode thirteen ninety three, The
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Funny Money Matter. Juliette says this was great. I loved it. The
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voice is the line, the plot. Bobby Lee says a very lighthearted episode.
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Loved it, and Laura says, this is my favorite episode. Thanks
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so much for your feedback. Also received a new review over on Amazon for
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the app. Mike Randolph says, must have excellent. Thanks so much,
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Mike. And that is part of a change to Amazon where you don't have
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to write particularly lengthy reviews. It used to be it had to be twenty
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words or more. So if you enjoy something, you can just leave a
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simple two or three word review about what you liked about it, and that
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gets recorded. So I appreciate that. All right, well, actually that
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will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with Dragnet and join us
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